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disfigure her. Virginians and other Southern people have no need to be ashamed of the part they took in the war. The northern people came here, bought Libby Prison, and carried it to Chicago to make money out of it. Why not dig up some field where Southern chivalry had been victorious and carry that away, too. Northern men say that they come from the North, but a Virginian does not say he comes from the South, but from ‘Old Virginia, thank God’; and even the negroes are proud of being Virginians and boast of it, even down to the exact county.
Every man is raised free, and therefore they all belong to the ‘first families.’

A Virginian never goes away from home with the intention of staying: he always hopes to make money and come back to the old Commonwealth.

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